A few white shark figures

Since 2014, 257 individual white sharks have been identified as part of population study done by the state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.

Since 2014, 257 individual white sharks have been identified as part of population study done by the state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. A great many of those sharks were seen off Chatham and Orleans.

That number was one of a few the conservancy released yesterday after the numbers were crunched for 2016. John Chisholm , a biologist with DMF, identified 146 white sharks in 2016 - 89 sharks were new and 57 were recaps (seen in a previous year), according to the conservancy.